Стоялов Максим Викторович

The film is directed by Kim Druzhinin and Andrey Shalopa, produced by Panfilov's Twenty Eight and Gaijin Entertainment. Initially the film used crowdfunding, later it has been financially supported by Russian and Kazakhstan governments and Gaijin Entertainment game development company. The premiere took place in Volokolamsk in 16 November 2016 and in Russia in 24 November 2016.[6]

The plot was written by Andrey Shalopa in 2009, and the production team took their teaser trailer of the film to Boomstarter crowdfunding platform, seeking co-financiers. "It will be a film about Soviet heroes. We will describe the battle near Dubosekovo, which went down in history as the deed of Panfilov's 28 men". The crowdfunding campaign was successful, and the film raised 3 million rubles out of planned 300 thousands.[7] By the time of the premiere the film raised 34,746 million rubles.[8]

In May 2014 Gaijin Entertainment, Russian game development company known for its game War Thunder joined the funding.[9] [10] In December 2014 the film won a grant of 30 million rubles from Russian Ministry of Culture, and later the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Kazakhstan added another $287 thousand.

Collecting money, producing and renting the film accompanied a vigorous discussion of its historical authenticity in the blogosphere and the media. The picture was positively received by the spectators, having collected in the CIS 384 million rubles and becoming the best film of the year according to the results of the VTsIOM poll.

Plot

USSR, late November 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Red Army's newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, shortly after the battle, this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight soldiers of the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division, under the command of General Ivan Panfilov, that stopped the advance on Moscow of a column of fifty-four German tanks of the 11th Panzer Division for several days. Though armed only with standard issue Mosin-Nagant infantry rifles and DP and PM-M1910 machine guns, all useless against tanks, and with wholly inadequate RPG-40 anti-tank grenades and PTRD-41 anti-tank rifles, they fight tirelessly and defiantly, with uncommon bravery and unwavering dedication, to protect Moscow and their Motherland.

Cast

Due to the peculiarities of the crowd-budgeting budget, the casting took a long time. The first confirmed actor was Yakov Kucherevskiy, who played Sergeant Dobrobabin - he agreed to withdraw two years before filming. The most recent confirmed Aleksey Morozov for the role of political instructor Klochkov - one day before the start of the shooting period. Panfilov's division was formed in the Kazakh SSR, the company included many Kazakhs, so many actors of Oriental appearance were required in the crowd - Shalope's team turned to the national diasporas of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Ivanovo. In general, the team consisted of 360 participants, and in total the project involved up to 700 people.

Actors Role

Yakov Kucherevskiy Ivan Dobrobabin, Sergeant

Aleksey Morozov Vasiliy Klochkov, Political instructor

Sergey Agafonov Grigoriy Bezrodnyh, Red Army

Aleksandr Ustyugov Ivan Moskalenko, Red Army

Oleg Fyodorov Grigoriy Shemyakin, Red Army

Andrey Nekrasov Illarion Vasiljev, Red Army

Nikolai Klyamchuk Grigoriy Petrenko, Red Army

Mikhail Pshenko Pyotr Dutov, Red Army

Dmitriy Murashev Grigoriy Konkin, Red Army

Anton Paderin Pyoter Emtsov, Red Army

Dmitriy Girev Yakov Bondarenko, Red Army

Vitaliy Kovalenko Ivan Shepetkov, Red Army

Anton Filipenko Nikolay Trofimov, Red Army

Amadu Mamadakov Alikbay Kosaev, Red Army

Azamat Nigmanov Musabek Sengirbaev, Red Army

Aleksandr Plaksin Abram Kryuchkov, Red Army

Maksim Belborodov Dmitriy Kaleynikov, Red Army

Oleg Senchenko Gabriil Mitin, Red Army

Pavel Goncharov Ivan Natarov, Red Army

Actors Role

Ivan Efremov Nikita Mitchenko, Red Army

Nikolai Ivanov Nikolay Belashev, Red Army

Vladimir Zaharenko Nikolay Maksimov, Red Army

Dmitriy Tsutskin Nikolay Ananjev, Red Army

Andrey Bodrenkov Ivan Shadrin, Red Army

Askar Tleugobilov Duishenkul Shopokov, Red Army

di. Kim Druzhinin Daniil Kozhebergenov, Red Army

Mark Ovchinnikov Dmitriy Timofeev

Aleksey Longin Pavel Gundilovich, captain, company commander

Anton Kuznetsov Y.M.Reshetnikov, major, commander of battalion

di. Andrey Shalopa Vasiliy Ugryumov, Lieutenant

Dmitriy Sutyrin Pyotr Ignatyev, senior lieutenant

Ivan Batarev artillery commander

Nikita Ostrikov signalman in headquarters

Aleksey Kashnikov signaller

Kirill Kuznetsov observer of the KP battalion

Lidiya Milyuzina girl

Maksim Abrosimov Panfilov's

Stanislav Lyamtsev

Sergey Agafonov

as Grigoriy Bezrodnyh,

Red Army Yakov Kucherevskiy

as Ivan Dobrobabin,

Sergeant Aleksandr Ustyugov

as Ivan Moskalenko,

Red Army Aleksey Morozov

as Vasiliy Klochkov,

Political instructor Dmitriy Girev

as Yakov Bondarenko,

Red Army

Dmitriy Murashev

as Grigoriy Konkin,

Red Army Amadu Mamadakov

as Alikbay Kosaev,

Red Army of Kazakh Anton Kuznetsov

as Y.M.Reshetnikov,

Major Maksim Belborodov

as Dmitriy Kaleynikov,

Red Army Azamat Nigmanov

as Musabek Sengirbaev,

Red Army of Kazakh

Production

Filming

In the process of filming, the picture operators used the following documents: storyboard, director's script, operator's table and tank battle scheme. The battle scheme contained the exact location of the tanks and the camera at different times, and the operator's table described what technique to use in what scenes. Such careful preparation allowed the team to work in winter conditions and with a short daylight.

The directors wanted to use a minimum of 3D animation and take as many effects as possible on the camera. The first experiments they conducted, moving primitive toy tanks the size of a matchbox on the sheets with the help of ropes. These experiments have shown that using reduced models of tanks will create the right level of realism.

As a contractor for the creation of special effects, Scandinava studio, previously specializing in commercials and having no experience with large films, was chosen. Specialists from Scandinava performed experiments on high-speed shooting and interested Druzhinin and Shalopu with his clip "Oil", in which a column of combustible liquid was rotating and ignited without the use of 3D animation. To work on the film, the studio expanded the staff from six to 28 people.